April 4: St. Issy Day!

Happy Feast of St. Isidore of Seville! This saint is known as "the last scholar of the ancient world." For hundreds of years after his death, the histories written were based on all his works; he wrote a dictionary, encyclopedia, and a couple of histories of man and the church. A doctor of the church, after succeeding his bother (St. Leander) as bishop of Seville, he fought the Arian heresy and unified the Christians of Spain.

He is a proposed patron saint of the internet. He is much needed in today's world where things are so easy to find online, better or for worse.

Almighty and eternal God,
who created us in Thy image

and bade us to seek after all that is good,
true and beautiful,
especially in the divine person of Thy only-begotten Son,
our Lord Jesus Christ,

Grant we beseech Thee that,
through the intercession of Saint Isidore,
bishop and doctor,
during our journeys through the internet

we will direct our hands and eyes only to that which is pleasing to Thee
and treat with charity and patience all those souls whom we encounter.
Through Christ our Lord.

Amen

(PS: But most importantly, he is my Confirmation Saint.)